Chirping Crickets

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On records. This is the follow-up to Tweeting Birds.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But what about the CUCKOO CLOCKS!! (Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist)

― Dr. C, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Flaming Lips' There You Are - Jesus Song No. 7 Aerial M cover of the Misfits' Last Caress

― Jeff, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely the classic chirping lp: Michelle Shocked, The Campfire Tapes?!

― stevie t, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best synthetic chirping crickets: The Perfect Kiss - New Order.

― scott, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cigarette by Ben Folds Five

― John Davey, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OS GRILLS (CRICKETS SING FOR ANNA MARIE) - Marcos Valle

― Mickey Black Eyes, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Christian Marcly, "Smoker." An overwhelming wall of crickets. Could be some frogs in there, too.

Also, Black Swan Network "Explanation II" uses them well.

― Mark, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm pretty sure there are some crickets on Ultramarine's 'Every Man And Woman Is A Star', a record which the pinefox would surely find to be a hideous cacophony.

They could be cicadas, in fact. How do you tell the difference?

― Nick, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's certainly an owl on it, Nick.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hello birds, hello trees! According to this (http://www.birdnature.com/nov1898/natures.html) FUN! and INFORMATIVE! article...

"Chief among the insect performers is the Cicada, often confused with the Locust, though he does not belong to that family at all, who possesses a pair of complicated kettle-drums, which he plays with his muscles instead of sticks."

ON THE OTHER HAND...

"The Grasshopper is the fiddler of the great orchestra, and the hotter the day the more energetically does he fiddle. The fellow with the short horns has a rough hind leg which be uses as a bow; this he draws across the wing cover, giving off the notes which he so dearly loves. Near the base of each fore wing is a peculiar arrangement of veins and cells. This arrangement differs in the different species, but in each it is such that by rubbing the fore wings together they are made to vibrate, and thus, some naturalists aver, they make the sounds which we hear."

Nature is indeed wonderful!

― Fotherington Trousers, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are no crickets on New Order's Perfect Kiss, Scott, only frogs (Perfect Kiss, geddit?). Grandaddy "Under the Western Freeway" is where to find crickets. Or possibly cicadas.

― MarkH, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That first track on the Stone Roses' 'Second Coming'...frogs too...and chirping birds come to think of it...

― Mat O, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yo la tengo, "Green Arrow", REM, "You Are the Everything", all of "On Land" by Eno. In fact, didn't he play lead cricket in Roxy?

― tha chzza, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The first minute or so of "Two Way Diamond i" off of "From our living room to yours" by the american analog set.

― Toby, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crickets, birds, water and wind sounds galore on the surprisingly pastoral new Cornelius album 'Point', due in the autumn.

― Momus, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The mighty "They Came in Peace" by lowly Tranquility Bass.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stevie: oh, I forgot Shocked - yes, the all-time cricket champ.

Nick D: yes, I'm sure I would.

My nominations: Lloyd Cole, 'What He Doesn't Know'; and is anyone going to say no to the Magnetic Fields' 'Old Orchard Beach'?

― the pinefox, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aren't there crickets on "Take Ecstasy With Me" too? Or am I just imagining them (maybe they're just crickety noises).

― Josh, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think there are. Anyway, that's a Christmas song!

― the pinefox, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, well it's warm in some parts of the world during Christmas. ;)

― Josh, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stevie T: did you get the Fothering-as-prefix-for-all-old-buffers thing from me?

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WHOOPS! Re-reading I realise it is of course Molesworthian!

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lotsa field recordings, natch. Plus the new Baaba Maal album, recorded outdoors (gorgeous!).

― M. Matos, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Christ almighty, you people are ALL DENSE. "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tommy James and The Shondelles. D motherfucking UH.

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a Bugs Bunny cartoon which depicts his "career in vaudeville" prior to becoming Bugs (used to know ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF: title, date, the lot: am but a wreck of former self etc). ANYWAY: there's a scene in it where he and his showbiz partner (poss.Elmer Fudd or Porky Pig) are doing a rousing tap finale in striped jackets and boaters, ending with a Jolson gesture (down on one knee, hat off, arms spread wide), and the reponse is NOTHING BUT CRICKETS CHIRPING AND FROGS CROAKING.

Date = early/mid-40s, I'd guess. But when did crickets+frogs become the soundtrack signifier for total unruffled calm? Is it a first-in-the-cartoons gag? Or is it from radio (seems plausible, but how did you get the frogs to croak, prior to magnetic tape, which didn't really exist prior to the mid- 30s? Did someone really record frogs on a 78 and rack THAT up? Of course you can imitate both with little duck-whistle type things...)

It's possible Bugs+buddy also get tumbleweed...: well, that's SURELY a cartoons-only gag. But maybe you know difft?

Sorry to hijack the thread: but I think the answers to the above may have a bearing ON the thread. Or maybe not.

― mark s, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fascinating, I think. Bugs & co + pop: underexplored connections?

― the pinefox, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a Medicine song on the first album with chirping crickets. Or is it frogs? I have a funny feeling it's frogs, because there's something about Ed Ruscha (their bassist's father) in the liner notes... hang on, I'll check.

OK, I was hallucinating about the liner notes (there was a famous acidically inspired debate about whether this album had liner notes and lyrics or not. We were convinced that it did, and it turns out that it never had. I don't know what I was reading, then...) but there are indeed crickets or frogs or something of that nature at the very end of Queen of Tension. So there.

― Kate the Saint, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This one's obvious: The "Chirping" Crickets, the debut album by Buddy Holly & the Crickets.

― M. Matos, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

By a vague recollection I have of a Marx bros. film, they used the gag too. Which implies to me that this was vaudeville before ANYTHING else.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven years pass...

Ultimate track in this genre!!

Neko Case, 'Marais La Nuit'

― the pinefox, Monday, 16 February 2009 12:36 (seventeen years ago)

This CD features Keiji Haino playing with the amplified and processed sound of 600 suzumushi (homeogryllus japaonicus) bell crickets.

http://poisonpie.com/sounds/haino/images/gys.jpg

― krakow, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

Xhol, Grille

― Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:02 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

M83 - Car Chase Terror (a favorite spoken word tune)
Rod McKuen w. San Sebastian Strings - "August 27, 1971"
Great Lake Swimmers first album (sounds like it was recorded outside at night)

― zaxxon25, Saturday, 31 August 2013 18:49 (twelve years ago)

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